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VERGENNES &mdash; The Addison Northwest Teachers&rsquo; Association on Dec. 19 will present a salary counter-proposal to Vergennes-area school officials in an ongoing effort to forge a new labor contract for district educators.</p>
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NEW HAVEN &mdash; Developers of a proposed high-voltage electricity cable through part of Addison County say it will be &ldquo;business as usual&rdquo; for the Vermont Green Line project.</p>
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But news that the project lost a bid to sell wind and hydro power to southern New England has caused uncertainty in New Haven, which would gain financial rewards as a result of hosting key VGL infrastructure.</p>
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<strong>HEALTH CARE: </strong>VTHC is a failure. It should be abandoned. Single Payer was declared unaffordable by Governor Shumlin.</p>
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Medicaid exists for people who can&rsquo;t afford insurance. Eligibility should be based on assets as well as income.</p>
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The free market should provide health insurance competition across state lines for everyone else until Medicare age.</p>
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VERGENNES &mdash; Residential school tax rates are now expected to drop in four out of five Addison Northwest Supervisory Union communities, according to new estimates released this week by ANwSU officials.</p>
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They revised their estimates &mdash; which are lower than those published in ANwSU annual town reports &mdash; after the Legislature agreed late in January to make changes to school-funding provisions in Act 46, Vermont&rsquo;s new education law that also promotes school consolidation.</p>
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WALTHAM &mdash; The Waltham selectboard came away from a Dec. 7 meeting with representatives of the companies proposing the Vermont Green Line saying it would recommend the town support the planned $600 million, 400-megawatt underground power line that would run from Beekmantown, N.Y., to New Haven.</p>
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&ldquo;Our board was supportive of the plan,&rdquo; said selectboard chairman Mike Grace in an email to the <em>Independent</em>. &ldquo;We just wanted to get enough information to answer any questions at town meeting.&rdquo;</p>
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MONTPELIER &mdash; Waltham, Ferrisburgh, Bridport and Cornwall are among the Vermont towns that will benefit from recent Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB) grants totaling $5,215,623. The monies will be used to to develop and rehabilitate 216 affordable homes, to protect 377 acres of agricultural land on three farms, to conserve 340 acres of forest land in the towns of Pownal, Shrewsbury and Mendon, and to provide permanent public access to a swimming hole in Johnson.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.addisonindependent.com/201507area-towns-receive-affordable-housing-grants" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Addison CountyBridportCornwallFerrisburghWalthamThu, 09 Jul 2015 12:15:03 +0000John McCright31350 at http://www.addisonindependent.comSunCommon floats plan for community solarhttp://www.addisonindependent.com/201410suncommon-floats-plan-community-solar
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">WALTHAM &mdash; The Waltham residential property tax rate for the current fiscal year rose by 28.74 cents, or about 16 percent, the largest increase among the five Addison Northwest Supervisory Union towns.</span></p>
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Waltham&rsquo;s selectboard set its residential and non-residential tax rates last week. Like all Vermont property tax rates, an increase in the statewide school tax rate pushed the town&rsquo;s rates higher.</p>
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IN “A MARATHONER’S Quest for Seven Continents,” a presentation at Bixby Memorial Library in Vergennes on Friday, March 21, at 7 p.m., John Lent of Waltham shares heartwarming stories of intrepid runners he met while he was running marathons in Antarctica and South America this winter. </div>
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VERGENNES &mdash; Bixby Memorial Free Library will host local marathoner John Lent on Friday, March 21, at 7 p.m., as he presents &ldquo;A Marathoner&rsquo;s Quest for Seven Continents.&rdquo;</p>
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Lent will share heartwarming stories of intrepid runners who recently participated in marathons held in Antarctica and South America. The presentation in the Bixby&rsquo;s Community Room is expected to last a little over an hour with additional time for questions and comments.</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">VERGENNES &mdash; The Vergennes Union High School board on Monday began the process of drafting a new budget for the school after voters in the five Addison Northwest Supervisory Union towns rejected the original spending plan on Town Meeting Day.</span></p>
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Comments by VUHS board members and ANwSU officials there and afterward showed some differences on how much and even whether to cut the budget, including the need for staff reductions.</p>
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VERGENNES &mdash; Voters in the three towns that send students to the Vergennes Union Elementary School approved a proposed spending plan by a margin of 447-322 on Town Meeting Day.&nbsp;</p>
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VergennesPantonVUESWalthamWed, 06 Mar 2013 14:21:40 +0000John McCright15757 at http://www.addisonindependent.comWaltham to lose a school director; Panton will seek a selectmanhttp://www.addisonindependent.com/201302waltham-lose-school-director-panton-will-seek-selectman
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PANTON &mdash; A longtime Waltham school director will reportedly step down, and Panton will have at least one new selectboard member in March, but little change in the ranks of Addison town officials looms on Town Meeting Day.</p>
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In Waltham, Kristin Bristow will not seek to be re-nominated from the town meeting floor to the Vergennes Union High School board, according to Addison Northwest Supervisory Union Superintendent Tom O&rsquo;Brien.</p>
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